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jif

jif is the alternative form of jiff.

jif is the abbreviation of JFIF.

Meaning of jiff

Noun

jiff (plural jiffs)

  1. (informal) A jiffy; a moment; a short time.
    • Oh, yerss. Come in. Half a jiff till I finished this bottom stair. Now then—whoa!—don't touch that banister; it's a bit loose.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company

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Noun capitalized: JIF

JIF (plural JIFs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of journal impact factor.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of JFIF.

Forms of jif

pluraljifs
pluralJIFs

Questions about jif

What is jif the alternative form of?
Jif is the alternative form of jiff.
What part of speech is jif?
Jif is a noun.
What is the plural of jif?
The plural of jif is jifs.

Words near jif in the dictionary

  1. Jiexi
  2. Jiexiu
  3. Jieyang
  4. Jieznas
  5. Jieț
  6. jif
  7. jiff
  8. jiffed
  9. jiffies
  10. jiffing
  11. jiffle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jif (page history and authors); JIF (page history and authors); jiff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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